©Sullivan: The Place Where People Come to Die is about the small town of Sullivan, located just outside of the city of Nowhere. Sullivan is odd in that specially themed funeral homes are the only commerce; the mayor is openly crooked; the wealthiest man in town donates his money to build bell towers on college campuses and preserving mascots with offensive Native American themes; a woman in town speaks only in lines from “The Princess Bride”; and virgin births seem to be a nonchalant announcement. This is what Eric Sullivan returns to for his ten-year high school reunion, at which he discovers that out of a class of 99, no one remembers him. Since leaving Sullivan, he became a decorated war hero while suffering severe wounds fighting in Mogadishu (which the town thought was a short lived television show), and after his military service, he made his fortune. His return home is partly to re-establish a lapsed romantic relationship, but he is in on business. At a town ceremony, he lets the town know he has copyrighted the name “Sullivan.” The town must rebuild the school library, or he will bankrupt them with royalties. The town’s plan: Kill G.I. Joe.

• Cast Size: 4M 3W
• Running Time: 120 minutes w/ intermission
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

43 STAGES OF GRIEVING: A COMEDY tells the story of a pregnant, dying robot and a human who attempted to live forever. Like almost anyone who has grieved, they can both attest that the idea there are only five stages of grieving is hilarious. But with a presumably incoming infant on the way, they can’t sit around and eat cheese all day (there are of course stages of grief for both hard cheese and soft cheese). Together they try to make plans for an unknown motherhood, kind but complicated technology, and a future without them. 

This is a comedy for a grief saturated world.

• Cast Size: 3W or 3W 1M
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

It’s December 1940 and KFLG AM radio in Kansas City, Kansas is about to perform the classic tale A Christmas Carol for listening audiences. But! Ten minutes before show time, the cast learns that they will have to go on without their sound engineer and all the sound equipment. Scrambling to find anything that will make a sound and attempting to make those sounds on the fly, the cast endeavors to forge ahead, perform the show, and make the best of a crazy situation. Audiences of all ages will enjoy this hilarious, fast-paced comedy. 

• Cast Size: 2M 5W
• Running Time: 60+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

On the night of the first-ever White House movie screening, First Daughter Margaret Wilson must find a way to break with her past and become her own woman. Yet at a showing of the infamous epic The Birth of a Nation she is forced to fend off advances from a young minister, confront her own racial intolerance, and somehow live up to her duty to her father and to her country without completely losing her mind. After Birth of a Nation is a farcical sendup of politics, piety, racism, and our fractured American experiment.   

• Cast Size: 6M 2W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

After Tartuffe: A reimagining of Molière’s Tartuffe, set in a Christian Fundamentalist post-apocalyptic America. The population has been decimated by the super-strain of the Avian Flu – stolen from a lab, probably by Fundamentalists. Oral, a rich businessman, has opened his home to a former megachurch pastor, disgraced in sex scandals: the Reverend Chadwick Pusser. Oral’s son Daniel cannot be free with Tyler, the guy he loves, with Pusser around, planting hidden cameras. Daniel reads SF alternate histories and suspects his own world is an aberration. He asks the website oracle.net for the original draft of Molière’s play Tartuffe – the one that was banned, before Molière watered the play down. Daniel thinks if he can get a pdf of the original, the universe will shift back to what it should be. Tyler’s older brother Vaughn is engaged to Daniel’s younger sister Mary-Anne – but Oral decides to force Mary-Anne to marry Reverend Pusser, horrifying her. Pusser tells Oral to control his women; he cites Lot as the kind of upright man the Lord smiles on. Oral won’t listen to truth when Reverend Pusser makes a pass at Oral’s wife Alma, or hear the outspoken housekeeper, Doreen, who denounces Pusser and tries to get Mary-Anne to stand up for herself. Daniel rejects a pass from Pusser also … and it seems that there is no end to Pusser’s hypocrisy or to Oral’s gullibility … but the people who see through the evangelical con man keep on fighting for truth, and for change.

• Cast Size: 5M 4W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Journey down the rabbit hole with the critically acclaimed Alice the Brave & Other Tales from Wonderland. First commissioned by and performed at Cassidy Park in Bogalusa, LA, this colorful, fun-filled adaptation of Lewis Carrol’s timeless masterpiece allows audiences to experience Wonderland like never before! While her parents are away on holiday, poor Alice finds herself bored out of her wits and forced to stay with her dreary Aunt Mathilda at her even drearier summer home. But after accidentally conking herself on the head, Alice discovers that a world of wonder and whimsy awaits her right behind Aunt Mathilda’s looking-glass. Littered with talking dodo birds and malicious Red Queens, Alice’s adventures teach her not only the importance of bravery, but that being true to oneself is the greatest conquest of all! 

• Cast Size: 2M 2F 7M/F
• Running Time: 45 minutes (One-act) 90 minutes (Full-Length)
• Royalty: $40 (One Act) $60 (Full Length) per performance

Paul and Adam are a gay couple living together happily in Miami.  One morning the doorbell rings and in walks Fox, age 15, just off the plane from Santa Fe.  He tells them that he is Paul’s son and that he wants to live with them. To share in this staggering news are Paul’s parents Jim and Dorothy, and after an all-day frantic trip from Santa Fe, Fox’s mother, Julie. This life-changing moment touches them all: Paul and Adam, who are discussing marriage; Julie and Fox, who are coming to terms with this boy growing into adulthood, and Jim and Dorothy, who never expected to be grandparents.

• CAST SIZE 4M 2W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Jordan has a bad cold when the messenger angel, Andela arrives to tell her she is carrying more than just a virus. She is also carrying a divine child! Jordan now has to explain this surprise pregnancy to her wife, with Andela hoping to spread the “good word” through the writings of sci-fi author, Scott English and the medical assistance of Scott’s ex-wife, the hand puppet wielding Dr. Krissi. This “miracle” will test two marriages, the institution of organized religion and an angel’s desire to be divine or stay grounded on Earth.

• Cast Size: 1M 3W 1Any
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

This romantic comedy, set in the summer of 1992, features four lonely Long Islanders, each with their own distinct viewpoints about life and love. Angel Ventura, or the Widow Ventura, as her younger sister, Gina, liked to call her, thought true love was like lightning, it never struck twice. As for Gina, she swore that finding true love was as simple as getting a new business partner – a well-placed classified ad ought to do the trick.  Steele La Chance, a house painter and would-be-novelist, believed true love was a great hoax: the stuff of fairytales, fiction, and fantasy; whereas Mrs. Rose Bloom, a seventy-five-year-old bubbie, felt true love was a match made in heaven before you were born, and if it was meant to be, nothing on this earth can stand in its way. For Angel and Steele, it took one red-hot July, a surprise summer storm of the century, two celestial pests, and a little help from Gina and Rose, two down-to-earth matchmakers, to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt: All things are possible for those who believe. 

• Cast Size: 2M 3W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

The Clarks are a typical 1960s sit-com family: Dad who goes off to work each day, Mom who stays home and bakes cookies, daughter Betty who is a popular high school Senior, and son “Tiger” who just might be at that age where he is beginning to discover girls. However a change is in the air. Not just in the home of the Clarks, but throughout the idyllic little town of Mayville. It’s more than just this odd new decade of the 1960s. Betty has a new best friend named Wanda who hides a devastating secret…a secret that just might lead to the end of the world as we know it

• Cast Size: 3M 3W
• Running Time: Approx 90 minutes
• Royalty: $75 per performance

While visiting their mother’s grave in the cemetery, Glen and Barbara are attacked by the dead risen from the grave to feast upon the living. Glen is killed, but that doesn’t stop him from coming back as a zombie to rescue his sister and flee Night of the Living Dead come to life. From Reefer Madness to Glen or Glenda, from Friday the 13th to Nightmare on Elm Street, from Attack of the 50 Foot Woman to Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Barbara and Glen battle their way from one B-movie menace to the next. Will they survive?

Cast Size: 15+ Characters w/ doubling
Running Time: 1 hr 15 min
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

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In this contemporary one-act farce, Olive finds herself saddled with more than she bargained for when she is named executor of her Aunt Zelda’s estate. To deal with the clean-out of her aunt’s cluttered home, she enlists the help of her ne’er-do-well brother Max, who brings along his less-than-helpful girlfriend Diana, who hires a somewhat-shady pawn shop owner Anthony, who brings his spacey son Zeke. But Aunt Zelda’s house proves to be full of more than just doilies and faux antique furniture. When their cleanout uncovers a priceless piece of art, their true natures are revealed…. And somewhere, in all the clutter, lurks a very cranky, very hungry, and VERY scary cat. 

• Cast Size: 3M 2W
• Running Time: Under an Hour
• Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

It’s hard to label anything, especially when you’re in love. And everything starts looking queer as one tribe decides what it truly means to belong. Andi and Mac are dating, both in their first opposite-sex romantic relationship – they discover the pitfalls of coming-out as bisexual when all of your family and friends already know you as ‘lesbian’ & ‘gay.’ Andi’s ex-girlfriend, Sarah, feels betrayed while other friends, Roger and Arco, struggle with disbelief or the purpose of labels altogether. Regina, Mac’s mother, considers Sal to be his other mother as both women raised him. But Sal soon realizes that Regina will never abandon her public identity as heterosexual, even though both women have shared emotional and physical intimacy over decades of a relationship lived in the shadows. All characters attempt to reconcile these personal identities with their public selves in terms of career, sexuality and relationships while testing the boundaries of LGBTQIA+ inclusiveness.

• Cast Size: 2M 4W 1NB
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

A romantic comedy about old friends, unrequited crushes and a Scandinavian sex curse. Charles’ third wife has just informed him she’s leaving. As he reels from the news and the reason she gives, he spends a weekend with his best friend Jack and their college friend Betsy, Betsy, who dabbled in witchcraft, reveals a secret from their college days that could be the reason for Charles’ failed relationships. Can Betsy help Charles win back his wife? Maybe, with the help of a Finnish coven.

• Cast Size: 2M 3W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance  

In the sleepy little cattle town of Bagwell, Colorado, childhood sweethearts Sheriff Gene Ranger and Nurse Becky Trueheart are on the fast-track for marriage when evil darkens their doorstep. Beautiful con artist, Sally West, is found unconscious and feigns amnesia. Her secret ally, snake oil salesman and self-proclaimed healer, Bodkin Shamley, appears. He discredits the town doctor and surreptitiously takes over with the goal of wooing Becky for her inherited cattle land. The villainous pair secretly introduce a concoction of love potion, and all the wrong people start falling head-over-heals for each other. There is only one hope for Gene, Becky, and all of Bagwell…true love.

• Cast Size: 5M, 3W, 2 Any Gender
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Ted’s family goes ballistic when he gets a $100,000 raise to and move to an upscale suburb in Kansas.  They think they are rich and adapt a rich life style.  Keeping up with the elite, all on credit cards.  Ted is going bankrupt while his family just keeps charging.  What is going to stop them? Will it be the blonde bomb shell, financial planner?

• Cast Size: 3M 6W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

The 5 Southern women who make up the governing body of Lexington’s infamous… sorry…famed Youth Theatre, are an extremely dedicated, God fearing, kind, caring, colorful, compassionate group. They agree to disagree, which isn’t always easy. But they share a common goal. To bring quality, Broadway level, youth theatre fare to their conservative community. They know that their choice to mount The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas will undoubtedly court controversy, but darn it there are so few shows with a large number of girls roles, and most of the girls are tired of playing boys. Sothey’re determined to do their kids and the great Miss Dolly Parton proud! Come hell, COVID, or high-stepping water.

• Cast Size: 5W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Joanna is worried about her mother’s failing memory. Margie is concerned about her daughter’s career and love life. In truth, both are terrified about how they will handle the worst that can happen – Margie contracting Alzheimer’s Disease. When an unlikely new housemate enters their lives and his movie producer brother pays an unexpected visit, both Margie and Joanna discover the best that can happen in the worst situation.

• Cast Size: 2M 2W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Barry Plumber has the worst case or writer’s block he’s ever experienced. His inability to put pen to paper is exacerbated by the fact that he shuns inspiration from all of the great writers in history, dismissing them as hacks. One evening, in a fit of resistance, he declares that “Shakespeare sucks!” – which inadvertently conjures the spirit of William Shakespeare, who refuses to leave. It’s only after Barry is forced to deal with the unwelcome apparition, that he realized that his inability to create may lie in the need to exorcise the demons from his past.

• Cast Size: 2M 2W
• Running Time: 2 hrs
• Royalty: $75 per performance

Four vengeful, narcissistic actors, with the assistance of a brutish stage manager and a cynical stagehand, abduct and hold captive a theater critic notorious for shutting down productions and ending careers through his malicious reviews. To confound matters, they intend to carry their plan out during a performance of a show they’re all currently appearing in. Less than an hour before the curtain is due to rise, their scheme begins to quickly unravel as we discover that none of the conspirators are familiar with the actual plan or its designed outcome. Brute Farce is a satirical commentary on the perpetually symbiotic, oftentimes dysfunctional, and occasionally turbulent relationship between actors and reviewers.    

• Cast Size: 3M 3W 1 Any Gender
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

The Cabots Comedies: One Act Plays featuring the First Family of the American Theater are four plays that represent the time on stage of the Cabot Family, a theatrical family dynasty. Beginning in 1926, when young Virginia Fleming and her sisters are performing the classics in what was called “tent shows” throughout the country. There, Virginia meets Charles Cabot, himself part of a family of actors, who comes to impact Virginia’s life. The next stage in the Cabots’ story takes place in 1950, when John Charles Cabot, Virginia’s son and acclaimed actor in his own right, discovers a valued treasure is missing and goes to seek retribution. He is aided by his mother, his sister, Veronica, (who is just beginning her acting career) and her friend. That next year, Jack finds himself at a casting call at MGM with two other actors who can match his own egotistical level of talent. Finally, Jack, Veronica, and their youngest brother, Monty gather for the funeral of the world’s greatest Shakespearean actor and reflect on their own mortality and fame. These plays feature brilliant roles for men and women and are witty, smart and represent a pocket of theatrical history that will never be repeated.

• Cast Size: 3M 3W, 2M 2W, 3M, 2M 1W (Character Breakdown for individual Plays)
• Running Time: Variable, 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 for the Whole evening, Contact for individual Shows

It’s nearing Christmas,1890. Recently widowed Almon Strowger purchases a mortuary, which is under the care of a witty spinster, Susan Simmons. A sudden decline in his undertaking business leads Almon to discover that calls are being directed to his rival. How? His rival’s wife is the town telephone operator. With the help of Almon’s nephew (Walter), a conniving accountant (Joseph Harris) and his eccentric wife (Macey Harris), Almon invents the Automatic Telephone Exchange, the device that makes telephone operators obsolete. However, Almon’s addiction to Blue Mass, his obsession with his wife’s death, and the mysterious disappearance of several of his other inventions, challenges the Telephone Exchange’s success. 

Cast Size: 3M 2W

Running Time: 90+ minutes

Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Donny is a successful writer of romance novels living in the Florida Keys with his girlfriend, Anna, a successful realtor.  Both have what they think is their dream life.  To make things even better, Donny’s agent Barbara arrives to offer him more money by turning his bodice-rippers into made-for-TV movies.  But then, Bobby Cramer appears.  He is the main character in the novel that Donny abandoned to write romance novels.  Bobby asks Donny: “Why have you left me in the bottom of your desk drawer?  I’d like to know what happened to me.”  This leads to a series of confrontations between the author and his fictional character who is, in many ways, the guy Donny wishes he could be.  Meanwhile, Anna begins to look at her life and wonders if just selling real estate is all there is for her.  She’d like to start a family.  Donny must choose between Anna and their comfortable life or Bobby and the unknown.

• Cast Size: 3M 2W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Waiting for a flight to London delayed by weather, six passengers decide to pass the time by re-enacting six of the stories from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (the Merchant, Miller, Reeve, Wife of Bath, Knight, and Nun’s Priest). Along the way they find the stories not only have a lot to say about sex, love, marriage, social status, youth, and age; but they are also revealed as reflections of each character’s personality and relationship to his or her fellow travelers. This play can be performed as a full-length work, or each tale can be presented as a separate 10-15 minute play.

• Cast Size: 4M 2W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes for full presentation/10-15 minutes for individual works
• Royalty Rate: $75 for full production performance/$15 when shorts are produced individually

A vaudeville-style comedy straight out of Saturday morning cartoons. This play has 18 characters and is intended to be performed by only 2 women. Captain Cobalt is an up-and-coming superhero trying to balance her heroic deeds with her secret identity, Cyanna Conda, the lowly pet store clerk. She battles everything from giant squid monsters to cheese-themed supervillains, encountering any number of bystanders (and a love interest) along the way. The final showdown, however, is with Captain Cobalt’s nemesis, the nefarious Dr. Killington, the mad scientist who insists that SHE is the hero of the story. Captain Cobalt et. al. encourage lots of audience interaction (cheering and booing especially) along the way. The set can be as stripped-down or elaborate as the production pleases, but the most important part…all the props are bananas. (Yes, actual literal bananas. The kind that pop when you throw them.)

• CAST SIZE: 2W
• RUNNING TIME: 90+ minutes
• ROYALTY RATE: $75 per performance

A local community theatre company has invited YOU to the final dress rehearsal of their production of GREASE! Excitement is in the air as the understudy for Danny is on, and at final bows, the cast finds out that their director, Trent, is… DEAD? Fans of Agatha Christie novels, the Knives Out franchise, and Clue (as well as anyone who has seen, done, or supported community theater) will love this One-Act play. 11 performers, Multiple Endings, and Comedy? THE CAST WILL SCREAM! has something for everyone!  

• Cast Size: 6W 5M
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

What do Mother Teresa, one bad driver, a man telling tall tales to his granddaughter, a missing golf ball, a brand new car, a hero running out of time, the misspellings of children and Satan himself have in common? They’re all fodder for the not-quite-right mind of writer John Busser. These seven one-act plays take you from Calcutta to Mexico, with side trips to golf courses, hospital waiting rooms, suburban homes, and car dealerships. Oh, he’ll also take you to Hell and back for good measure.

• Cast Size: 6M 4W (Gender Flexible on some roles)
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

A down-home comedy VERY loosely based on actual people and events!  It is Fall of 1967 in the small town of Texas City, Texas and Dr. Herbert F. Stallworth already has plenty to contend with in getting his new community college off the ground in their temporary quarters in an old dilapidated high school, but an Open House Night for local VIPs with no A/C just before a vital bond election doesn’t make it any easier! Throw in a greedy mayoral candidate, a wily local business owner, a very vocal student senate, a well-meaning custodian and additional pressure from “the powers that be” and you’ve got a hurricane of commotion! But with his trademark wit and affability, Dr. Stallworth navigates the rocky waters in this funny and affectionate mix of fact and fiction. The rest, as they say, is history!

• Cast Size: 8M 3W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Sam and Frank Weaver are at their summer home in Harbor Grove, an exclusive resort community on the shores of Grand Traverse Bay in Michigan, for a memorial service for Ruth, Frank’s wife and Sam’s mother. They are joined by Greg and Janey Anderson and their son Gary, who was a childhood friend of Sam, and Sam’s former lover Pete. They reminisce about their summers spent up at the lake, and as the day progresses into night and the masks come off under the influence of good Scotch, some well-kept secrets and memories that would rather be forgotten are revealed.

• Cast Size: 6M 1W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Third century, Arabia. Cosmas and Damian are Christians who serve Jesus by providing medical care for everyone in town, for free! They are passionate, enthusiastic, and bold. However, their medical practices are less than safe, and when they perform a limb transplant using the sawed-off leg of a cadaver, they provoke anger from the other town doctor, who wants to see them banished. With a hilariously tragic cast of suffering villagers, Cosmas and Damian is a historically inaccurate play that deals with eye gouging, rabies, gangrene, and religious persecution in a way that will make everyone smile. 

• Cast Size: 5M 4W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Organized and proficient in her professional life, Tara is messy and lonely in her personal one. So, she does what any good project manager would, and creates a detailed project plan to launch a stable relationship. When there’s a problem, she logs a bug. When there’s something missing, she creates a feature request. What could possibly go wrong?

• Cast Size: 2M 2W
• Running Time: 75 minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

If a stranger with a cello shows up in a rainstorm claiming to be your husband’s wife, do you let her in? Agoraphobic artist Althea Emory does, and receives a mysterious big red envelope for her trouble. She’s also treated to Bea Lamartino’s wacky wordplay, swordplay, Egyptiana, food fights, melt-downs, and very strange charades.  DENIAL (is not a river in Egypt) is a loopy dark comedy about love, loss, and embalming (yes, onstage, and even funnier than it is gross – which it totally is). DENIAL… it’s also about how women – especially when they have reasons not to – help each other. 

• Cast Size: 2W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

The year is 1895 and Sarah Bernhardt is the greatest actress to ever grace the Victorian stage – just ask her! The “Divine Sarah” fears, however, her once bright star may be fading with all the attention suddenly being lavished on a talented, younger rival. When she stumbles across an incredible new script written by a naïve, but up-and-coming playwright, though, Sarah is convinced her path to theatrical immortality is assured… until her rival also gets her hands on a copy. Throw in a fuss-budget theatre manager, a stern Teutonic maid, a nimble-footed usher, plus a hilarious jumble of confusions and complications – and the stage is set for the ultimate showdown as the two dueling divas cross wits and blades in this frantically funny farce!

• Cast Size: 3M 3W 6M/W
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
• Running time: 90+ minutes

DR. ARTHUR GOLDMAN’S BIRTHDAY PARTY is a journey through the mind of Arthur Goldman as he celebrates his 70^th birthday. His party guests include his wife, his best friend and a visitor from his past. As the play progresses it becomes apparent that Artie is suffering from dementia and that what is real and what is only in his mind are indistinguishable.

It’s a comedy.

• Cast Size: 2M 2W
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
• Running Time: 90+ minutes

In this delightful children’s comedy, Happy the Christmas Elf decides that he/she doesn’t want to be an elf anymore. Instead, he wants to go back to school and become a math teacher! Only problem? He can’t add. So, Santa sends him back to elementary school, where he experiences hilarity and fun with the other students – and gets reminded of the true meaning of Christmas.

• Cast Size: Large Flexible Cast
• Royalty Rate: $40 per performance
• Running Time: Under an Hour

Tiny’s having a bad day. First he breaks a doll, then he lies to Santa about it and has to clean the reindeer stalls for two weeks! When the reindeer make fun of him, he runs away to New York to become a taxi driver…taking his part of The List with him. Can the reindeer and elves find the biggest elf at the North Pole before Christmas is lost for everyone?

• Cast Size: Flexible
• Running time: Under an Hour
• Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

Sometime in the not-too-distant future, inside the headquarters of an American school district, District representative Dr. Quell meets with Katherine and Clarissa Clemons, the mother and older sister of troublemaking student, Abraham. The District is fed up with the boy’s misbehavior. No consequence they have ever given the boy has deterred or changed his mischievous ways. New policy adopted by the District dictates that rebellious students who do not respond well to traditional behavioral interventions must be publicly humiliated with the letter “F” “laserbranded” onto their faces. Clarissa argues with Dr. Quell that this is an unacceptable consequence for Abraham—it will ruin his self-esteem forever—but Katherine begins to side with the school district…

• Cast Size: 1M 2W 1GN
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

A robbery leads to revelations for three sisters: fragile Stazi, a forensic pathologist who is chronically single; Ginger, who’s “adventurous” past comes back to haunt her; and Theresa, a cigarette-smoking, foul-mouthed nun, who’s always been the stalwart sibling. Add in Ginger’s husband Shawn, whose battered ego and desperate attempt to make it as a chef further complicates matters. Sibling rivalry, pornography, a dead mother who’s still very much a potent presence, a handful of condoms, secret ingredients, and family secrets threaten to tear the sisters apart.

• Cast Size: 1M 3W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

At the age of three, Mary disappeared near the Pench Jungle in India. Ten years later she was found. Fortunately, a family had taken good care of her for those many years. A family of tigers, that is. Mary now believes that she is a cat. Enter noted child psychologist Dr. James Hauser. Seeing an opportunity to not only “save” the girl, but to also earn a bit of fame for himself, James vows to turn the girl back into a human being. But what if Mary doesn’t want to be human? What if Mary would rather remain a cat?

• Cast Size: 2M 3F
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

This fast-moving comedy follows art director Kyle as he tries to discover his real self amid the power struggles and skewed priorities of a high-powered New York ad agency. After an office restructuring puts him in a new creative group run by the megalomaniac homophobe Kate, he finds an unlikely ally in copywriter Dodo, a living-legend from the era of “Mad Men” who not-so-gently prods Kyle to the uncomfortable but inevitable realization that “It’s time to take off. And soar.”

• Cast Size: 3M 4W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Jane is a 40-ish travel agent whose career is going nowhere. Hounded by an idiot boss, she dreams of pursuing her true calling: being an international spy. When her rich, freaky would-be customer Fred wants to take a daring trip to impress the girlfriend who left him, Jane per-forms a ballad dance version of the perfect excursion to Bhutan. But instead of buying the trip, Fred hires Jane to “fix” his life with what-ever tawdry subterfuge is necessary. Jane impersonates a lawyer to rough up Fred’s sister, spies on his ex-wife, and attempts a street heist to collect from one of his deadbeat clients. Jerry Polner’s madcap comedy will keep the audience zipping along with Jane as she fixes one problem, then fixes two problems…all on her journey to, ultimately, fix number six. 

• Cast Size:4M 3W
• Running Time: 2 hrs
• Royalty: $75 per performance

When Queen Mama sends her boys out into the world to seek their fortunes, they all meet the girls of their dreams.

• Royalty Rate: $40 per performance
• Cast Size: Large Flexible Cast
• Running Time: Under an Hour

A contemporary comedy of manners about the things we keep from the people we love. From the Top examines (roughly) the same half-hour from three different perspectives as the characters prepare to leave for a special event. In Act One, young actor Edmund
arrives with his new boyfriend Paddy, seeking a private moment with his mentor, Brandon, a highly regarded theater director. His efforts are inexplicably blocked by Irene and Calvin, an actress/playwright couple. In Act Two, moments before Edmund and Paddy’s arrival, Irene tries to break up with bewildered Calvin. They discreetly negotiate the chaos going on around them, ultimately confronting the fate of their relationship. In Act Three, starting moments earlier than the previous act, Brandon welcomes Irene and Calvin, and soon the reasons for his sudden reclusiveness and their madcap efforts to hold Edmund at bay become heartbreakingly clear. 

Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Cast Size: 4M 1W

Running Time: 90+ minutes

Professor Greg Waverman and his love interest, doctoral candidate Annie Talon, spend the winter in an 1820s-era cabin in Gallows Falls, Vermont, for the purpose of debunking centuries-old ghost stories connected to the property. Their skepticism dissipates, however, as embodied spirits reenact scenes right before their eyes, pulling the couple into their narratives. The Marquis de Lafayette, hero of the American Revolution, attempts to repatriate buried gold, while a romantic tryst turns deadly, and the exoneration of an executed woman hangs in the balance. Historical events intertwine with supernatural mischief, as Greg and Annie learn the truth about the house.

• Cast Size: 5M 3F
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

It’s summer 1938 and the Newport social season draws to a close. At the last possible minute, Mitzi receives an invitation that could change her status and her life. This might be the chance the young, nouveau riche debutante has been waiting for, when the gates of the golden, fairy tale realm of the social elite open wide for her. That’s if she doesn’t make a fool of herself. And if her snarky-but-well-intentioned maid doesn’t ruin her chances. And if those gathering clouds on the horizon don’t foretell one of the greatest natural disasters in New England history. If she can survive all that, surely this is her time to shine. She knows she can do it! … Kinda. Set on the eve of the great hurricane of 1938, in the dying years of the Gilded Age, Girl on a White Elephant is a comedy about hope, class, and searching for a place to belong.

• Cast Size: 2W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Norman Miller is an unemployed fiction writer who fills his literary work with passages so sexually explicit that no one will publish them. He puts so much emotional energy into the writing that he fails to satisfy his wife, Mixie. Long-suffering, sexually desperate, and concerned for her sanity, Mixie begins an affair with Ted, who may have deeper feelings for her than she wants. An argument leads to murder, and murder leads to disposal problems…just as an unexpected guest shows up with earth-shaking news in this new dark comedy.

• Cast Size: 2M 2W 
• Running Time: Over an Hour
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

“A collection of dark comedy one-acts by award winning playwright and screenwriter Daniel Guyton, including the critically acclaimed plays GEORGIE GETS A FACELIFT, BEDFORD’S STY, FATHER AND SON, ROMANCE IS DEAD, THE SINS OF REBETHANY CHASTAIN, MILO & BARBARA, I’M NOT GAY! and SPAT! These shows will terrify you, make you laugh, and might even make you cry – all at the same time. Experience murderous confessions, romances gone wrong, and dreadful deeds aplenty. Find out why critics have called these plays “Tar pit-dark comedy”, “Delightfully perverse” and “Morally repugnant.” These dark comedies are sure to delight, offend, and most of all entertain!”

• Cast Size: Flexible
• Running Time: Variable
• Royalty Rate: $60 per performance (Contact for individual plays)

A collection of 8 One-Act Plays. Includes the titles Macabre-Cadabra; Bingo, the Birthday Clown; Don Wannabe; Fat Dick; Say Hi To Agnes For Me; The Grim Raper; Poor Bastard; and Poisoned Apples. These plays will terrify you, make you laugh, and might even make you cry – all at the same time. Come hear murderous confessions, romances gone wrong, and dreadful deeds aplenty. These dark comedies are sure to delight, offend, and most of all entertain!

• Cast Size: Flexible
• Running Time: Variable
• Royalty Rate: $60 per performance (Contact for individual plays)

The sleepy little burg of Battue Haven, MN, is an idyllic suburban gem of picket fences and manicured lawns until, suddenly, with a literal Bada-bing-bada-BOOM!!… the sudden arrival of two mob enforcers causes what started as a simple cookout with the neighbors to quickly explode into a hilarious all-out rough-and-tumble tizzy of chaotic complications, esoteric entrées, and highbrow hoodlums on Pallduva Lane!

• Cast Size: 9Any
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

“HUCKLEBERRY TOWERS” follows a retired couple, Henry and Helen Auburn, as they make the difficult decision to sell their family home – at the request of their daughter and son – and move into a retirement community.  They find their new home consists of a variety of colorful characters who maintain their independence and zest for living. Suddenly, however, an unexpected threat to the community emerges in the form of a successful real-estate developer. To counter progress, everyone rallies together in an effort to demonstrate that “old people matter!”

• Cast Size: 8M 11W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Tyrone’s high school drama club is holding auditions for their first Shakespeare production. The new drama teacher has chosen “The Scottish Play”. As Tyrone and his best friend Oscar prepare for the audition, they discuss the fact that, since they are Sophomores, they don’t have a chance at any of the leading roles. Tyrone’s mother, aunt, and grandmother try to encourage Tyrone to raise his expectation by proclaiming three surprising predictions. At the audition, Tyrone is overcome with a level of ambition and desire he never fathomed he had. He betrays Oscar, who comes back to haunt Tyrone in one of his auditions scenes. He allows himself to be manipulated by Sky, the queen of the “untouchable” girls, who is ruthless in her desire to obtain the role of Lady Macbeth. Tyrone manages to gain the attention of the new drama teacher and has a good chance of being cast in the role of Macbeth. After opening up to his father about his fears of being cast in the lead role, Tyrone learns a few family secrets that explain a lot about the bizarre behavior over the past few days.  This play is written for high school student actors to perform for a high school audience. The main objective is to provide students a chance to perform full Shakespeare scenes within the context of a present-day situation, in order gain an understanding of the intention in Shakespeare’s writing. 

• Cast Size: Large Flexible Cast
• Running Time: 60+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Ida lives in a fairytale. She is also aware that everyone who gets a “happily ever after” must endure great challenges and hardships to achieve it. She decides she is content just doing everyone else’s laundry as they survive curses and dragons. Then the dark fairy, Billiana arrives at Ida’s laundry hut, threatening her with a curse if she doesn’t stop hiding from her “happily ever after.”Forced into an adventure, Ida meets a mystical creature called JumJum, a troll, a selfish king, a nervous prince and a mermaid. She soon discovers that “happily ever after” doesn’t necessarily mean marrying a prince and moving to a castle. Sometimes leaving your comfort zone and risking everything for your friends is “happily ever after” enough.

• Cast Size: 4M 5W 5M/F with extras
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty: $75 per performance

The Importance of Being Cecily, or Cecil by Daniel Curzon dramatizes in a comedic way the problems of some folks in late Victorian England, as Oscar Wilde did not, could not, or would not do, lest he spend even more time in prison. We have Algernon , the ugly-named man about town, trying to arrange a suitable marriage with a pretty unsuitable girl, or maybe with her brother. We have Miss Prizzin, the governess, a thoroughly self-righteous and unbending “progressive.” Has she committed a series of crimes with her teapot, or has she been maligned? We have Lane, a manservant yearning for a strong woman in his life, but where is she? We have Lord Bracknell, Lady Bracknell’s husband, who cannot seem to escape his marital debt. Then there is Cecil, a willowy, poetic lad fond of willow banks and similes, but not assonance. The Usual Suspects? Hardly.

• Cast Size: 3M 2W 1M or W
• Running Time: 120+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

The struggles of being British, rich, and self-absorbed can be rather difficult to manage. Do you serve pâté or caviar? Which high-end brandy should be always on-hand and in which crystal decanter? What to do when the regular hired help doesn’t show up for your fabulous dinner party, and how to handle the replacement houseboy who really doesn’t look that well and has a predilection for human brains? A zombie would normally be quite the bother, but there are so many more pressing concerns, like how to your infidelity from your possibly also cheating spouse? Is it possible to be so self-absorbed that you don’t even realize that there’s a zombie among you, and who will be eaten first?

• Cast Size: 4M 3F
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

At Ashby’s Galleria, art show attendees anxiously await the arrival of reclusive billionaire Jonathan Bixby. Each is eager to impress, hopeful that proximity to such wealth and power will increase their own status. However, the evening takes a turn when an unexpected guest appears, stirring up a whirlwind of confusion and confrontation. As the guests clash over matters of money and art, revelations come to light, and more than one life is forever changed.

• Cast Size: 3M, 4F, 1Any
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

A play about the power of poetry, the poetry of power, and the perils of publishing. —And surely the world’s first verse play set in the offices of an in-flight airline magazine.

• Cast Size: 3M 3W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Indifferent Blue tells the story of Stanley who is desperate to get out of heaven. He’s sick of the overwhelming sameness of it all and he decides to find his way out. Trying to stop him are his guardian angel, Gerald, a man who carries a heavy secret, and a smug St. Peter. Along with their friend, Elise, Gerald and Stanley embark on a quest to discover the nature of heaven, hell, and friendship.

 ” WINNER – 2008 Tennessee Williams One-Act Comedy Playwriting Award”

• Cast Size: 3M 1W
• Running Time: 45 minutes
• Royalty: $40 per performance

Psychologist Margot Welles is taking a “sabbatical” from her marriage to explore her “untapped feminine potential” by giving lesbianism a whirl. Hoping to make Margot jealous, her husband Phillip, a philosophy professor, starts dating the lovely Antonia… a much older woman. Margot and Philip both employ their best friend Brighton, a romantically disadvantaged film professor, to keep one another posted… but Brighton’s “gay best friend” duties are waylaid when his former student Nick begins to court him out of the blue. Mayhem ensues.

• Cast Size: 3M 4-6W
• Running Time: 120+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

An institution is often a place for the confinement of inmates, especially mental patients. Marriage can be defined as the social institution under which a two people establish their decision to live as husband and wife by legal commitments. Commitment can be defined as confinement to a mental institution or hospital….and we’re back where we started. So WHY is it called the institution of marriage again??? Carol M. Rice takes a cynical and humorous yet touching look at marriage in these monologues and scenes. From a woman who has been married eight times giving advice to her single friends, to a three-time widow describing her husbands’ crazy deaths, to why men and women have trouble being “just friends,” the situations are absurd yet realistic. Institution: any established custom or familiar, long-established practice (as in marriage).

• Cast Size:1M 3W
• Running Time: 45 minutes
• Royalty: $40 per Performance

The classic story of Mowgli the Man-Cub springs to life in this lively and spirited adaptation of “The Jungle Book.” Raised by wolves and protected by a wise panther and semi-narcoleptic bear, Mowgli’s adventures take him from a crumbling ancient city to a run in with a massive python, to a climactic showdown with the ferocious tiger, Shere Khan. Filled with action, heart, and all your favorite characters from the Rudyard Kipling classic, this retelling puts a fresh spin on the story we all know and love, while weaving a lesson about finding one’s place in this vast and wild world.

• Cast Size: 4M 4W 5-22 ANY GENDER
• Running Time: 90 minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Mean Joe Buchanan has sexually abused his daughter, Marylee, for years, and as president of Pittston Coal, he’s treated young Tyrone and all the other miners horribly as well. Tyrone and Marylee meet, for the first time, in a bar. They each think that, in separate incidents during the day, they killed Buchanan. But this man never dies. They quickly fall in love, Tyrone confesses to being a descendant of Daniel Boone, and Marylee reveals she’s related to Betsy Ross. So with Joe and his boys on their heels, they flee across the country in search of knowledge of their ancestors and of “an America that used to be.” But when they arrive at Boone’s Carson City house exactly at the same time as Joe and his boys, all seems lost until a mysterious stranger points to a tree outside whose roots might lead them deep into the past…perhaps to a place where Daniel and Betsy are waiting for them. With Buchanan still on their heels, Marylee and Tyrone take the plunge in this (award-winning) dark, hysterical and very tender comedy.

• Cast Size: 5M 4W (With doubling)
• Running Time: 2hrs
• Royalty: $75 per performance

The 10 short plays in this collection range from the absurd to the serious to the seriously absurd. Praised by critics as “hilarious,” “darkly funny,” and “more than a little bit moving,” they have been produced by theatres across the country and around the world.

• Cast Size: Flexible
• Running Time: 90+ for full evening
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance for full evening, contact for shorter plays

Fiona Blake is a hot young actress who has just made her debut in a big summer horror movie; Stacy Clifford is a male figure skater headed for Olympic glory. They meet late one night at a Hollywood party, strike up a friendly conversation, and end up sneaking out together—but not without catching the attention of the paparazzi. When the gossip columns turn them into a couple, they decide to play along—in order to cover up the fact that, in reality, both of them are gay. As the lie snowballs, it begins to wreak havoc with their careers, their relationships, and every aspect of their lives. 

Set amidst the neon-colored pop-cultural obsessions of the late 1990s, Kiss and Cry is a romantic comedy with a sharp satiric edge.

• Cast Size: 3M 3W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

When a young maiden who has never touched a sword learns she must defend her inheritance in a duel, she struggles with a milksop suitor, a servant girl posing as a Prussian fencing master, a Prussian fencing master who thinks he is there to marry her, a stodgy lawyer and her domineering aunt – the finest blade anywhere – to save her house and lands. Like all classic farces, everyone gets the ending they deserve in unexpected ways… but will they be satisfied?

• Cast Size: 2M 5W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Jerry is having the worst Christmas season ever. When he loses his job as a newspaper film critic for panning a blockbuster film that was made by his boss’s son – he’s not sure he can survive the holidays. In an effort to cheer him up, his girlfriend gives him an old lamp that just happens to contain a genie – who grants Jerry five wishes. As each wish takes him farther and farther into disaster – Jerry begins to worry that the odd number of wishes might come back to haunt him in the end. 

• Cast Size: 3M 2W 1 M or F
• Running Time: 2 hrs
• Royalty: $75 per performance

The Bronx, 1935. The end of prohibition turned all the speakeasies into legitimate nightclubs, if you want to call The Aardvark Club legitimate. Honey has worn nearly every hat you can wear; slinging drinks, cooking the books, but at the end of the day, she’s a stripper. Most people come and go like ghosts, but it’s hard to miss Zack, an aspiring comic who performs at the club.  Zack’s got some talent. He might even amount to something. So why did he have to tell that joke? One bad joke, about Frankie’s girl, no less – and club owner Frankie is not known for his sense of humor. Now Frankie has given Honey one more job to juggle. She’s got to help Zack build a whole new act for an audience of one. And as they say in comedy; “You either kill, or you just die up there.”

• Cast Size: 2M 1W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

The year is 1939. The offices of the Magnopolis Daily News are buzzing over the rumored return of Dr. Kasady, the evil genius intent on global domination. Kasady hasn’t been seen in the city in over 10 years. As the reporters race to get the story, the discover the unassuming shoeshine girl, Rishamie Reid, may know something about where Kasady has been and why he is returning. For Rishamie is no ordinary shoeshine girl. A genetic mutation hasturned her into the Lightning Bug, a super hero who can move faster than the eye can see. When Kasady arrives with his latest plan for global conquest, Rishamie may be the only person who can stop him.

• Cast Size: 4M 4W
• Running Time: 90 minutes
• Royalty: $75 per performance

In 1910 Chicago, the social reformer Louisa hires the immigrant mechanic Sully to build her a new heating system. After convincing Louisa that his steam boiler absolutely will not make her pregnant, Sully realizes he will get nowhere romantically without listening to her lectures about worker rights and suffrage. When the mysterious Mr. McRee pulls Sully into a campaign to challenge the banking establishment, he finally sees the struggle between capital and labor, and joins Louisa in a greater progressive movement that is worth their sacrifice. LIKE MONEY IN THE BANK is a comedy-history about one of the era’s most romantic events, the founding of the Federal Reserve Bank.

• Cast Size: 4M 3W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rte: $75 per performance

A thriller, with strong comedic notes, in which a murder has occurred in an isolated village – and seems to have otherworldly origins. Michael, a resident in the village, is intrigued and soon discovers that his wife, Lara, is responsible for the crime, and, furthermore, has concealed her terrifying, true identity. When suspicion falls on Michael he realises the full extent of Lara’s betrayal, and soon Michael and his uncle Frederick appear to be at her mercy. Denied access to outside help, they are forced to use their ingenuity to escape her non-human clutches.

• Cast Size: 6M 2W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Best friends, Bernie Bloomberg and Sol Rabinowicz have operated their own hardware store in New York, for 50 years. It all comes apart after Bernie defaults on a loan from mobsters. Sol pretends they are themselves mobsters and sets about threatening to kill the local kingpin, “Joey Legs.” It’s no surprise, then, when Sol and Bernie end up in the witness protection program in Texas, they have some difficulty “fitting in.”

• Cast Size: 2M
• Running Time: About an Hour
• Royalty Rate: $50 per performance

It’s 1949, and Lucille Ball is starring in a hit sitcom on CBS Radio. When the network offers Lucy her own TV series, she has one condition. Her husband, Cuban-born bandleader Desi Arnaz, must costar. But CBS wants a more “All-American” leading man. This is the hilarious true story of how Lucy and Desi launched history’s most groundbreaking and influential sitcom: “I Love Lucy.” They challenged mid-century America’s social mores, including opposition to a Cuban American costar and showing a pregnant woman on television. The play is presented as an easy-to-produce 1950s-style radio broadcast, using recorded, radio-show-style music cues (supplied with the licensing of the script). Written by the son of “I Love Lucy” creator Jess Oppenheimer, this witty, fast-paced comedy has “as much heart and humor as the series itself” (SWVA Today).

• Cast Size: 21M 6W 2 Any Gender (minimum with doubling 6M 2W)
• Running Time: 65-70 minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

As the school year comes to an end; Amy is desperate to make some memories. Unfortunately, nothing exciting has happened until the principal goes missing! Can Amy organize a secret group of students to find out what happened to him before the bullies find out he’s gone!?

• Cast Size: 1M 3B 3G (Gender Flexible)
• Running Time: Under and Hour
• Royalty Rate: $40 per Performance

Magpie is a story of identity, transformation, and sacrifice.  With the support of her therapist, Maggie is beginning to claim her own story. Risking her troubled relationship with her mother, she searches to learn more about the father she doesn’t know. But can she summon the strength to find the one thing she needs the most, herself?

• Cast Size: 2M 2W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

In story theatre fashion, the play brings the fables of the Eastern Woodland Indians to life. Stories range from the creation of the world, the clans, European Explorers to ritual. Many Snows Ago is based on the extremely short tales of the Lenape and other Eastern Woodland People. The dramatization and embellishment of these tales was done to engage today’s young audience while still imparting the wisdom of this noble group of people. Perfect for schools and actors of all ages.

• Cast Size: Large Flexible Cast
• Running Time: Under an Hour
• Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

The Valley Isle serves as the backdrop for this tale of relationships attempting to navigate rough waters. When straight-laced Stanley takes his estranged wife, their recent college grad daughter and her milquetoast fiancé to Maui, what should be a celebratory trip quickly turns ugly. The group finds themselves rooming next to a homosexual couple who have traveled to Hawaii to have a civil union ceremony, but who soon find their relationship is starting to show cracks as well. It’s only with the help of an overbearing ex-Flamenco dancer, that the couple realize that it’s facing the challenges of relationships head-on that will steer them through rough seas and enable them to land on calmer shores. 

• Cast Size: 5M 4W
• Running Time: 2 hrs
• Royalty: $75 per performance 

Winner of the 2009 Mark Twain Prize for Comedy Playwriting.

Chance is the creator of Queer-Boy comics. What else would you expect from a kid who grew up in Metropolis, Illinois? When his father decides to kill Superman in order to get his son to come home, he dies in the process and now Chance must go home for the funeral and its aftermath. 

• Cast Size: 4M 3W
• Running Time: 2 hrs
• Royalty: $75 per performance

In an undisclosed location deep in the woods, a blindfolded stranger with the codename V arrives to join a group of befuddled yet earnest patriots to count ballots from a recent election. Over the course of several days, a sense of claustrophobia and paranoia takes over as manager T oversees worker bees R and S, just as V begins asking too many questions. All the while, a guy named Chuck stands menacingly on guard in the corner as an ominous contraption known as “The Bloodhound” sits in the middle of the room, hungrily waiting to be fed.  Little by little, identities are uncovered, loyalties are tested, and lunch is eventually procured. But will it be too late to make a difference in the election? 

• Cast Size: 2M 3W
• Running Time: 90+minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Based on a poem described in “The Brothers Karamazov” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and written in rhyming Iambic pentameter. The Virgin Mary travels to hell to comfort the souls in torment. While there, she condemns her own soul to save those of all mankind – much to God’s dismay. What erupts is a war between Heaven and Hell, with all of our souls in the balance.

• Cast Size: 2M 2W Flexible ensemble w/ doubling
• Running Time: 90+ Minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Kate Carden knows that, sometimes, keeping your boyfriend in a dog crate is a perfectly logical thing to do. In an unfiltered, no-holds-barred seminar, the self-described interpersonal guru takes her audience on a hilarious and heartbreaking exploration of relationships and reality, seasoned with adult language and candid sexual references. It’s everything you wanted to know about relationships but didn’t have the balls to ask. But,just when Kate is on the verge of complete clarity, an unexpected discovery changes everything.

• Cast Size: 1W
• Running Time: 60+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

On the final night of spring semester, a newly-dating college couple meets in a dorm to prepare for a move. She is packing for a summer in Spain. He is trying to find out where things stand. Their rapid-paced banter tackles everything from Shakespearean quotes to sexy state capitals, from the rules of wishing to the perils of romance, from teddy bear voodoo dolls to the dreaded energy drink of death. As they fill up the boxes and open up about the relationship, their comical conversations, confrontations, and confessions explore past loves, present feelings, and future plans. 

CAST SIZE: 1M 1W
Running Time: 45 minutes
Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

Mrs. Dilber, Scrooge’s maltreated housekeeper in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, meets Marley and the Spirits of Christmas before they haunt Scrooge, and sets off on a past, present and future adventure of her own in this subversive and hilarious reimagining of the classic Christmas story. 

• Cast Size: 11M 11W 11GN plus Ensemble (Casts of 9+ with doubling possible)
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

A group of unusual characters gather for the vampire Lady Sanguina’s crypt-warming party. But halfway through Sanguina’s after-dinner speech, she coughs up blood and falls down dead. In this zany comedy, a vampire, a nonbinary zombie, a werewolf who doesn’t know she’s a werewolf, and the butler, Igor, among others, must race to find the perpetrator of the murder before the sun comes up. 

• Cast Size: 4F, 2M, 1NB, 5 ANY
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Broadway veterans, Mary Ellen and Mary both have  had quite successful and satisfying careers. Now in their golden years, Mary invites Mary Ellen to dinner to question why they didn’t stay close. What caused them to become estranged for decades? Was it guilt from an illicit affair? Or envy that caused betrayal? After sorting through some cloudy memories, the truth comes out. Or does it? When they start sharing moment-to-moment intimacies, Mary proposes that they collaborate on a play about their lives to perhaps find the truth of their existence. Mary Ellen agrees and in the process of building their legacy project, their bonds begin to grow even stronger. Fact, fiction, fantasy and frustration all blend together in a bittersweet tale of trying to find meaning at this stage of their lives. What results is touching and totally unpredictable.

• Cast Size: 2W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

In the alternate London of 1820 during the reign of King Stanley V8, Elinor and Marianne Wood, the illegitimate daughters of Sir Henry Dashwood and his cook, have become Nell Dash and Nance. They find themselves whirling up against Fagin, The Artful Dodger, Miss Havisham, Celia and Polly Peachum, and a barber named Todd, among many others. Their vile half-sister-in-law, Lady Fanny Ferrars Dashwood, stops at nothing to keep them from getting a single penny of the fortunes accrued from the Dashwood Meat Packing Empire whilst at the same time tries to attain the two strands of pearls given the girls when they fled Devonshire years before, pearls which have mysteriously disappeared and have a strange history of their own.

• Cast Size: 4M 4W 1GN
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Comedic slice-of-life story about a happy-go-lucky Chicago cab driver, Earnest, who loves to sing “Bluebird on my Shoulder” to keep the blues from overtaking his life, and Howard, a hard-driving businessman, who jumps into Earnest’s cab for a life changing ride to O’Hare Airport. As the two slowly make their way to the airport for Howard’s big trip to St. Louis, Earnest’s good nature begins to take hold of Howard and soon he is apologizing for his less than appealing behavior. As Earnest drives, the relationship between the two unlikely friends begins to grow. Before long they are exchanging life stories – how easy Howard’s life has been, but he still finds it necessary to sing the blues and how hard Earnest life has been but, despite the hardships, he usually finds a way to look at the bright side. Ken Crost’s charming one-act weaves a tale that not only entertains, but reminds us to always looks on the bright side. 

• Cast Size: 3M 2W
• Running Time: 1 hr
• Royalty: $40 per performance

A frazzled director in rehearsal for a musical finds herself contending with the executive director’s latest dimwitted girlfriend, who can’t sing, the quarrelsome male lead, who can’t quit complaining, and the executive director himself, who can’t stop interfering. His uncle, the owner of the theater, begins to wonder if the show really must go on. Music is forgotten when confusion takes the stage, as theater staff and cast members clash in pursuit of art, commerce, and romance.

• Cast Size: 3M 4W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

On the Air! is a farce-comedy that is set in New York City in the 1940s during the height of radio theatre. The workers of WLL are excited when the most popular show of the era, The Shroud, brings its cast and crew to their station to broadcast the famous program. When a dark figure dressed in the Shroud’s cloak begins causing havoc, chaos reigns in the station. As others begin cloaking themselves, the confusion and humor run amuck in this tribute to the golden age of radio and to the farce play.

• Cast Size: 5M 3W
• Running Time: 2 hrs
• Royalty: $75 per performance

Wyn, a newly-minted “wizard” with a brand-new wizard badge, recruits a tall dwarf, Hilda, and a forest elf, Acetaminophen (“Ceta” for short) to go on a quest to defeat the evil queen by finding the orb of Mags Guffin. Along the way they encounter a swamp lion, have to traverse the Lair of Nozid (whatever that is), deal with some very rude bully wizards, and come face-to-face with a dragon, among other things. Not to mention those strangely familiar-looking tavern workers in each town…

A loving homage to classic fantasy novels and role-playing games, Orb Quest: the Quest for the Orb features a cast of 8 (with doubling) and so, so many bananas. The final installment of the Banana Trilogy (whose stories are unrelated except for using bananas as props). 

• Cast Size: 2M 2W 4GN
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

A darkly-humorous, yet, foreboding look at post 9/11 America, Osama Been Laughing gives witness to the collateral damage inflicted by Mary Leary’s terrorist-obsessed paranoid delusions… Mary spends her days glued to her telescope, scanning suburbia to rip the invisible terrorist weeds from her neighbors’ manicured lawns. When she convinces herself there are Al Qaeda wannabe’s in the neighborhood plotting the demise of western civilization, she turns to the only thing she believes has the clear answers, her religion. Can a conniving, pedophile priest be the one to convince her that her country’s salvation rests solely on the sacrifice of her only son?

• Cast Size: 5M 1W
• Running Time: 2 hrs
• Royalty: $75 per performance

On the verge of a spiritual crisis, Barbara attempts to make up with her sister Annie before getting married to keep from bringing any of that baggage into her new life. That’s easier said than done when Barbara’s carrying a secret about their past and Annie can’t get over the fact that her pet turtle died – when she was five years old. Amid the difficulties of their reconciliation, Barbara’s Bride’s Maids are determined to give her a Bridal party to remember. Nothing can ruin Barbara’s big day except perhaps her domineering Mom and a therapist with a soothing voice and no boundaries. Will Barbara finally grow up and take control of her own life?

• Cast Size: 1M 8W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

TRUE or FALSE?* 

1) Vikings wore horns 

2) Napoleon was short  

3) Marie Antoinette said “let them eat cake” 

History comes alive as students learn that fake news is old news and disinformation can be disastrous. With the school principal waiting for the slightest excuse to fire the students’ favorite teacher, Mr Parker, and Charlotte Locus manipulating the media to become Student Council President, will the students learn from the past or will they be doomed to repeat it? A trope-filled, historical myth-busting comedy, with a couple of songs thrown in. 
*FALSE!

• Cast Size: 10W, 6M, 1 M/W (Flexible ensemble casting)
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

What happens when you cross Agatha Christie with Monty Python? You get The Party – a sort of drawing room murder mystery set in a posh London apartment where everyone is either named Richard or Mildred, which adds to the sheer madness. Richard and Mildred have planned a dinner party for all of their best friends, but did Mildred send out the invitations? When Richard, a neighbor and uninvited guest, shows up in a tux and feigns ignorance of the party all hell breaks loose resulting in the unfortunate shooting death of the crasher. When no one else shows up, Richard and Mildred decide to head off into the night, leaving poor Richard’s body lying on their floor covered in a tablecloth. Later, Richard and Mildred discover that Richard’s body is no longer under the tablecloth. Where did it go? To help unravel this mystery, the police arrive in the form of Lieutenant Richards, and Richard and Mildred’s two best friends, Richard and Mildred, show up to lend their support. The play careens along until everyone is dead and the bodies have piled up like so much fire wood. 

• Cast Size: 4M 2W
• Running Time: 2 hrs
• Royalty: $75 per performance

Needra and Marlene enjoy a perfect post-racial friendship until “black” robots walk into their lives. These automatons, based on Westinghouse’s 1930 brown-skinned robots, place them at opposite ends of society in an alternate past. This hilarious comedy delves into our traumatic legacy and explores new ideas about how to move forward. 

• Cast Size: 3M 3W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

This comedy of “speculative fiction” explores inter-gender politics in a time when a “matriarchal” society has replaced the world order we know. In this time, procreation is a highly regulated business with forms to file, quotas to meet, and successful “mergers”absolutely essential. It’s perceived as the perfect system; a vast improvement over “the old way.” But is it really? One by-the-book “breeder” will be left to wonder that when he arrives at the estate of an eccentric woman for what he assumes will be a routine breeding “session.” What he discovers upon his arrival will be anything but routine!

• Cast Size: 2M 2W
• Running Time: 90+minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

THE REAL TALE OF JACK AND JILL gets to the bottom of what actually happened that day up on the famous “hill”. Jack and Jill are 25 years old and still living in their parent’s ramshackle hut – sans plumbing. When their cousin Dave and his friend George unexpectedly drop by on their way to Waxahachie, TX to become professional kissers – the day quickly deteriorates. Before long, the foursome find themselves up on the hill battling falling buckets of water, flying knives, mad cow disease, and amnesia. The truth would have come out years ago if Mother Goose wasn’t such a pathological liar. 

• Cast Size: 3M 1W
• Running Time: About an Hour
• Royalty: $40 per performance 

RED & SCOOTER is a Hollywood story of the meeting of a woman with a dream of stardom and an old timer who’s seen almost all of it and doesn’t care much anymore. RED, who is no longer in her 20’s, has come to Hollywood to escape Wilkes-Barre, Pa. She pays a visit to SCOOTER, a film director with little to do but drink and play with his electric trains. She’s got an audition the next day for a big television show and is desperate for help. SCOOTER thinks she’s cute, so despite his better judgment, he decides to give her a hand. They end up singing, dancing, performing magic, eating Chinese food, and falling in love…if only for a little while. When the night ends, RED goes off for her big chance and SCOOTER returns to his trains. It’s New Year’s Eve: December 31, 1949.

• Cast Size: 1M 1W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate $75 per performance

A holiday in 1907 Italy with her spinster cousin changes everything for young Lucy Honeychurch. After experiencing adventure, romance, and passion in Florence, will Lucy ever reconcile herself to a more conventional life in England with her family and fiancé? Brimming with eccentric characters, humor, and charm, this new adaptation of E.M. Forster’s classic novel is the perfect romantic comedy.  

• Cast Size: 7M 8W (w/doubling); up to 18M 17W (w/o doubling)
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

When an African-American “deserter” wanders into the camp of the Irish Brigade near Gettysburg, conflicts intensify, but the soldier carries an old statue that his family calls “Saint Somebody,” since they don’t know her real name. Based on real events at The Wheatfield, the play, SAINT SOMEBODY, suggests one solution as to how the Brigade of 600 held back Confederate troops for three days when they were outnumbered by thousands. What the Irish Brigade needed—and found—was a miracle. A play about the women and other unsung heroes in the Civil War, SAINT SOMEBODY explores a part of history that has not been dramatized. It confronts the brutalities of war (to include behind-the-battlefield issues), and the characters demonstrate love’s resilience and the necessity of hope to keep the spirit alive in dire straits.

• Cast Size: 3M 3W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

This is the story of Lisa Duvall, a rising young operatic soprano who is understudying the great role of Tosca in Puccini’s opera of that name. Set backstage at Opera California, the play provides a rare and fascinating view into the hothouse world of opera. A controlling conductor-fiancé, a legendary diva, a starstruck young composer, a sarcastic gay brother, and a singing ghost are just some of the colorful characters who add to the chaos of Lisa’s life, as she struggles to come to grips with the daunting role and hopefully earn her first contract at the Met.  

• Cast Size: 4M 4W
• Running Time: 120+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

William Shakespeare is having a bad day. After a bad review, he doubts his ability to write. As he laments his choice to be a playwright – and considers turning to glove making like his father – he is visited by the nine Muses of Greek mythology.  The Muses guide him through the stories that will become his source material for new ideas and leave him feeling inspired and ready to put his quill to paper again. Shakespeare and the Muses is an exploration of Greek mythology, Shakespeare’s works, and the question of where writers get their ideas from. 

• Cast Size: Flexible cast of  9 M/ 12 F +Ensemble
• Running Time: Under and Hour
• Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

Holmes and Watson fight the greatest evil yet in this spoofilicious comedy. Time travelers, a fictional giant lizard and a villain from drive-in movies challenge our deductive hero with evil seduction of every stripe. Watson helps as best he can but is distracted by the call of the wild in the form of both automaton seductresses and an unwillingly cross-dressed assistant. In the end, Holmes must face Godzilla and his own gooey inner demons to save the world from its farcical fate.

Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Cast Size: 5M 7W

Running Time: 90+ minutes

SHORE HOUSE, a suite of 10 short plays set in a resort cabin, the kind that high school seniors rent after the prom or graduation. A play for and about young people on the cusp of their new life, plays about moving on and growing up — who will and who will not. The plays incorporate a wide variety of character types and genres from romantic comedy, to taut drama, to farce. Each play has between 2 and 4 actors, and the entire evening can be performed with between 4 and 27 actors.

• Cast Size: Flexible, 
• Running Time: 2 hrs
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

When three sisters reunite for a reunion, they discover they re all having romance troubles. The recent widow is diving back into the world of dating, the newlywed is worried she has made a mistake yet again, and the youngest has become invisible to her husband. Can they all help each other solve their problems?

• Cast Size: 2M 3W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

When Snow White’s evil stepmother wants to have her killed for her beauty, she escapes into an enchanted forest where she meets Little Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks, and the three little pigs. Several classic fairy tales are woven into a charming story with, of course, a happy ending had by all.

• Royalty Rate: $40 per performance
• Cast Size: Large Flexible Cast
• Running Time: Under an Hour

Snowball is a fantasy comedy set in the present day in a suburban home. It’s about a middle-aged couple who run a business together but whose marriage is in trouble. But then their recently deceased cat Snowball returns, reincarnated as a young woman.  Unfortunately, she still has the habits and characteristics of a cat.  They try their best to teach her how to behave like a human being, but without much luck.  She winds up turning their lives upside down, which in the end is just what they needed to save their marriage.

• Cast Size: 3M 4W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Space Leader Grizelda Braithwaite, Space First Officer Keem, and Space Officer Expendable are sent on a dangerous mission to recover a space diplomat – or is he a space prince? – from his kidnapping by the Big Dipper Syndicate. Along the way they encounter any number of obstacles, hula hoops, and also bananas. Many, many bananas. This outer-space comedy is loosely based on a certain beloved 50+-year-old sci-fi franchise.

• Cast Size: 1F 1M 1NB 5M/F
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

In a world where you swipe to hookup and ghost to end a relationship, finding something meaningful, or even just normal feels nearly impossible. Hard-edged Bridgie and quirky, buttoned-up Kate navigate the New York City dating landscape in an attempt to find something real in the parade of 10 guys that pass through their midtown bar. Based on true life stories and spectacularly failing the Bechdel test, Squirrel Screams and Other Dating Sounds is an honest look at how difficult it is to date in the new millennium and how the relationships we find aren’t always the ones we’re looking for.

• Cast Size: 2M 2W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

A comedy about two lonely New Yorkers on a high stakes blind date. Stella, a chatty, lovable dog trainer is no stranger to the world of J-Date, a label she longs to shed. Even with her intense baggage and deep-dark secrets, she has a hopeful shot tonight with Isaac, an affable, jazz-loving, alcoholic schoolteacher with his own skeletons in tow. Adding to the tension of the night is a third character, Don, a bully, a “Force” — born from Stella’s own neurosis — out once again to destroy her last chance at love, sanity, and happiness.

• Cast Size: 2M 1W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Stud Ducks and Horny Toads follows the misadventures of Milton Day and his grandson, Russell, as they blaze a trail of bull$#!+ across West Texas in this All-American comedy of warmth, wit, family, and taxidermied lizards! 

Winner of the 2003 KCACTF Region III One-Act Playwriting Competition.

• Cast Size: 4M 2W 1B
• Running Time: 90 minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 performance

As Natalie and Steve return from taking their last child off to college, we see they are not the stereotypical couple suffering from empty nest syndrome.  Steve has rented some X-rated movies to spice up their marriage; however, their plans for the romantic weekend are thwarted by the nonstop visits from their dysfunctional family members, and this makes for a hilarious romp of a weekend.

• Cast Size: 3M 5W 
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Colin sits alone in the cafeteria every day.  The eye patch he must wear over his injured eye makes him a favorite target of the school bullies.  When Amy transfers to Colin’s school and wants to sit with him, he’s suspicious of her motives.  Most of his classmates have been trying to get the secret of what happened to his eye for years, but he’s never told a soul.  When Amy asks about the eye patch, Colin makes up increasingly outrageous stories (which are acted out on the stage).  Finally, Amy becomes fed up with Colin’s stories and he is faced with the choice to open up to Amy and make a friend or to keep his defenses up and remain alone.  

• Cast Size: 10-30 roles. Flexible Casting
• Running Time: 40 minutes
• Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

Talk shows abound in today’s media, but did you know they also existed in the Elizabethan period? No? Then travel back in time to the Globe Theatre with this production of The Terry Stinger Showto meet the great Terry Stinger, talk host extraordinaire, who welcomes members of the feuding families, the Capulets, and the Montagues. Watch as we learn of their family secrets, including the special one that only Romeo and Juliet know about, and then watch the sparks fly, especially when, Ethyl, Romeo’s secret lover appears; I bet you never heard about her? And let’s not forget the ever-present, period correct, commercials that are offered, yes, even back then, to help in financially supporting the show. The Terry Stinger Show is a parodic take on today’s talk shows set in the Elizabethan period. You know Shakespeare would have done this if he’d thought of it. And who knows, maybe he did?

• Cast Size: 4M 4W
• Running Time: 30 minutes
• Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

In this dark comedy play, three high-borne women in Victorian Era England must face a brutal reality when the patriarch of the family passes away, leaving them with no money and with little hope for the future. When a strange man appears at the doorway, it seems that hope may be restored. Or will it only get worse from there?

• Cast Size: 2M 3W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Aaron Barnes, a widower, lives next door to an interracial couple who do their best to avoid his racist, sexist, and homophobic rants. Aaron seeks help for depression, but he is administered an experimental drug and changes into Erin, a younger African American woman. Vanessa, a transgender Latina, offers Erin advice on how to accept his new identity. Erin meets Tess, a lesbian whom he decides to date. By the end of Erin’s journey, Aaron learns some powerful lessons about acceptance by walking in the shoes of someone very different from himself.

• Cast Size: 4M 3W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Benjamin Zwyckoff’s brilliant invention – the oscillating sprinkler – is stolen from him by the Arthur Morgan Lawn and Garden Company. Zwyckoff challenges them in court. During the trial he gets trapped in his memories: the marble championship he won when he was a kid, the visit to Ebbets Field for Jackie Robinson’s first game, the great love of his life that he lost because she was black girl and he was a white boy, the struggles with his wife and son, and the inventions he never got to create.

• Cast Size: 7M 3W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

V (Veanne), recently separated from her twin brother Baz as a result of their parents’ divorce, starts her senior year at a brand-new school in Elmira, NY. With her boyish appearance, manner, and nickname, V gets misgendered by the other kids at school—but she goes along with their misconception because she feels surprisingly welcomed by them. Misunderstandings, miscommunication, and misdeeds abound in this freewheeling, contemporary, high school-set adaptation of William Shakespeare’s TWELFTH NIGHT.

• Cast Size: 6M 4W; 1W or NB; 1 M or W off-stage voice; Extras M, W, or NB
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

In March of 1978, Gantscho Ganev and Roman Wardas, two Polish refugees living in Switzerland, exhumed the mortal remains of a certain silent film star in order to hold them for ransom. This story is as true as it is unbelievable. And while the Who, What, When, Where and How are all matters of fact, the question of Why is…up for question. In an unlikely yet romantic blend of comedic farce and dramatic realism, both satirical and lyrical, this revisionist account explores why these two desperate men would commit such an absurd crime on that strange and surreal night. 

• Cast Size: 2M
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

A collection of quirky characters gather for a focus group about why Americans don’t vote. The neurotic moderator loses control of the participants, resulting in a melee of violence and exploding peanuts. The audience then sees what’s happening behind the two-way mirror, revealing that the moderator and participants are not what they seem. Chaos ensues as the group, and the room itself, falls into ruin while a few, desperate souls attempt to save the country from destruction. This modern comedy is about apathy and its disastrous effect on American democracy.

• Cast Size: 3M 5F
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

The Thanksgiving gathering in this small apartment is no Norman Rockwell picture. The vegan teenager in the family is horrified that a “poor bird” is roasting away in the oven. There’s not enough food, but two uninvited guests manage to wangle their way in for dinner. Another couple said they had “news” to share and the family figured they’d hear about the upcoming birth of a child. Wrong. When the turkey catches fire and folks decide to take off for roomier pastures, an environmental accident occurs and everyone must “shelter in place.” Can it get any worse?  Oh, yes indeed.

• Cast Size: 4M 6W 1 ANY
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Junie Holguin returns home after three days and learns he’s been dead for three years. To figure out his death and his life he returns to his mother, his wife, and his daughter. Love, forgiveness, and magic play an important part in  Junie learning who he really is. 

• Cast Size: 1-2M 3F
• Running Time: Under sn Hour
• Royalty Rate: $50 per performance

Several years after the country falls under the sway of criminal corruption, Maddie (a former activist turned convenience store clerk) finds herself stuck in her dead-end job, without hope and unable to move forward. When a gun-toting convenience store burglar convinces her to embrace the new America and turn to crime, Maddie embarks on a surreal journey involving a punk rocker, an philandering academic, a former child actor and a man in a giant penguin suit. WAYS TO BE HAPPY is a post-Trumpian comedy about rediscovering hope when you’re surrounded by insanity.

• Cast Size: 3M 3W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Anna is called suddenly to the surprise wedding of her prominent widowed father. The unknown bride threatens to ruin the Ellsworth’s beloved Indiana home. And she’s Canadian! The ceremony is timed to occur during the fall Equinox on a remote Great Lakes island resort where, seven years ago, Anna met and lost the love of her life. Since then, she’s become a bitter technical writer who loses her lunch at the first hint of an “I do.” As the family gathers for the ceremony, they uncover alarming details – Wiccan rituals, carnival schemes, dubious land deals. In desperation, Anna, her two sisters, and their Aunt Rusty plot to abduct the bride and enlighten the clueless groom. But who’s the handsome sailor with cousin Louella? Why is Aunt Rusty strangely protective of Anna? What is the bizarre report from the family doctor? Will Anna unscramble the mystery and discover who she can trust before it’s too late?! Based very loosely on the ridiculous antics of three sisters in Jane Austen’s Persuasion.

• Cast 2M 5W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

In this modern take on William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Demetrius is in love with Hermia because of her amazing math skills, but she only has eyes for Lysander. Helena is in love with Demetrius, who doesn’t like her. Duke Theseus is on the cusp of marrying Hippolyta, a bridezilla who is making life difficult for her party planner, Philostrate. The fairy king and queen are in a lovers spat, causing chaos in the woods. Meanwhile, a crew of Mechanicals – the worst acting troupe in the land – are rehearsing a play for the Duke’s wedding day. The fairies narrate the action in rhyming couplets, as the lovers take to the woods and get tangled up in magic charms, misplaced love, and misunderstanding. But all ends happily for lovers, actors, and wedding planners alike. 

• Cast Size: LARGE FLEXIBLE CASTING
• Running Time: 45minutes
• Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

Harry Hooter has enemies – and most of them are his friends! This interactive murder mystery is meant to be played out over a full 5-course dinner – immersing the audience into the crime scene. After a mishap with an air conditioning system – Harry ends up dead in front of the crowd, who now have to solve the crime before the evening is up. Who did it? Was it the bodyguard? The jilted girlfriend? The cocktail waitress? The Olive Man? The Detective? Perfect for fundraising or for groups who love interactive mysteries – “Who Killed Harry Hooter?” will keep your audiences guessing to the very end. 

• Cast Size: 4M 2W
• Running Time: 2 – 2 1/2 hrs (Meant to be performed through a 5-course meal)
• Royalty: $40 per performance

On a dark stormy night, five men arrive at a cabin for a soap star’s  surprise birthday party.  Each guest  has been asked to dress as  the birthday boy’s favorite actress, Joan Crawford, in one of her signature roles  – and the results aren’t pretty.  As they wait for the star,  the five “Joans”  begin drinking and dishing, dark secrets emerge and soon there’s one Joan less … and then another…  Who Killed Joan Crawford? !  

• Cast Size: 5M
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

A king makes an outrageous request of his wife, an ambitious networker social-climbs his way through a royal court, and anxious advisers conduct an empire-wide search for a new queen… involving makeovers, rose ceremony, and all the bits of the Book of Esther you don’t read in school. A comedy for the ages, for all ages. 

Also included: a shorter and even more kid-friendly version of the same play with flexible casting

• Cast Size: 7-8 characters: 2W/1M/4-5 any
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

WOMAN HOLLERING CREEK is set in the fictional town of Dark Cloud, Texas, at the DRESSY BBQ FISH TACOS, a restaurant, dress, and bait-and-tackle shop that also offers fishing and hunting tours, as well as massages. DRESSY BBQ FISH TACOS is doing a booming business since the ghost town hopes to get into the Book of World Records for their Largest Ball of Dental Floss. The shop is like an old-fashioned General Store on steroids. It prides itself in finding you whatever you need, and they dabble in just about everything. But, when a “stranger” comes to town and promises to make them all rich, we learn that no one is who they claim to be in Dark Cloud and everyone has a secret. WOMAN HOLLERING CREEK, a serio-comedy with a farcical flair, takes its name from the creek that runs through San Antonio, and the script was inspired by the legend of La Llorona, the “weeping woman.”

• Cast Size: 2M 5W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Wyatt Earp lived with a Jewish woman for forty-seven years without benefit of marriage. Upon Earp’s death, the woman, Josephine Marcus, buried him in a Jewish cemetery in San Francisco. This play dramatizes their meeting and courtship in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, shortly before and directly following the gunfight at the OK Corral; Marcus played a subsidiary role in the events leading up to the gunfight. 

• Cast Size: 4M 3W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

New York City, 1897. Christmas is almost here, and eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon is beside herself with excitement. Suddenly, though, she finds herself facing a crisis of belief when her friends tell her Santa Claus is a myth. Filled with doubt, Virginia asks everyone she knows to tell her the truth: Is Santa Claus real or not? Still unsure and dissatisfied, she finally takes her father’s advice and famously writes a letter to the New York Sun newspaper for a definitive answer to that most crucial of questions. Funny and heartwarming, this holiday play will delight audiences of all ages.

• Cast Size: 2M 7F (3adults, 4 children)
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Janis and Merle, two middle-aged widows, are on their annual summer vacation trip when they are uncere-moniously abducted by Beau, a twenty year-old escapee from a prison work farm, who holds them captive in a motel room. From the outset, it’s clear that Beau hasn’t entirely thought through his escape plan. He only wants to make his way back to his high school girlfriend, but selecting Merle and Janis as his means to of getting there may have been more than he bargained for. Your Dilly Dilly Heart delivers full-out laughs while examining the quiet lies we’ve begun to accept as fact, in order to get us to the end of the day. 

• Cast Size: 1M 3W
• Running Time: 1hr 45 minutes
• Royalty: $60 per performance

YOUR LITHOPEDION is a dark comedy about a serial killer who becomes the founder of Serial Killers Anonymous and how that ruins his marriage. You’ll never think of 80’s rock in the same way again. The show uses a false-narrative that parallels how the characters are false-people pretending towards humanity. The play constantly subverts time, space, and story, while always teasing with a feeling of narrative—an almost-narrative perhaps. This play walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, but on close inspection is really a fish. A very murderous fish. Remember, it’s a comedy.   

• Cast Size: 1M or 1W (with expandable casting)
• Running Time: 60+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance